While we didn’t resolve our differences, Prime Minister Rao and I broke the ice and began a new chapter in Indo-U. A few months earlier, at an event in California, the comedian Robin Williams had lampooned the NRA’s opposition to banning cop-killer bullets with a good line: “Of course we can’t ban them. The biggest thrill of the event for Chelsea and me was the presence of Sir Edmund Hillary, who had explored the South Pole in the Over the next few days, Al Gore, the cabinet members, and I fanned out across the country to sell it.
It’s one of the things I would miss most after I left. It was a truly bizarre proceeding. But as Abba Eban had said long ago, the Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity. After the funeral I held a few meetings with other leaders at the King David Hotel, with its magnificent view of the Old City, then headed back to Washington.
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